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1 HaBench: The Haskell Benchmark Suite

Recent discussions have illustrated the need for an up-to-date Haskell benchmark suite. The goal would be to package a number of representative benchmarks, written in Haskell, which users can run on their machine. Gathering (and publishing) performance numbers for these benchmarks on a number of different machines will hopefully help in guiding future development of both Haskell compilers and programs.

1.3 Notes

Random notes are below.

* (JohnMeacham) Insert non-formatted text here pretty much every compiler has a mode similar to 'ghc --make',
so just let the user specify an arbitrary command line for the compiler to use,
like 'jhc -v -flint $< -o $@' or 'ghc --make $< -o $@'